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Happily my wiflies met the ideas of the other 

 gentlemen acting in the commiihon of the peace 

 here ; and to their great honour, by their unani- 

 mous concurrence and aiUftance, I have been able 

 to get ercdcd a new Bridewell and Penitentiary- 

 Houfe at Wymondham, built upon fuch a plan 

 as enables the Governor to keep the fexes and de- 

 grees of offenders entirely feparate from each other, 

 and under fuch regulations and difcipline, as pro- 

 mife (with God's blciring) to work a thorough re- 

 formation in their manners, whereby they may, 

 and many probably will, again become ufeful 

 members of fociety. The houfe is conftrudled 

 agreeably to the diredions of the late ad of par- 

 liament, and fo contrived, that there are feparate 

 cells for each prifoner, airy, neat, and healthy, in 

 which they fleep, and, when neccflary, work the 

 whole day alone. This folitude is found to affed 

 the moft unfeeling and hardened among them be- 

 yond fetters or ftripes; and is that part of their 

 punifhment from which reformation is chiefly ex- 

 peded. Their cells are all arched, fo that no fire 

 can reach beyond the cell in which it begins. The 

 rules and orders for the government of the houfe 

 were, at the defirc of the Juftices at their Quarter 

 Seflions, drawn up from, and according to the 

 diredions of the faid ad, by myfelf, and have 

 met with their approbation. 



Lord 



